Cute Kitty.

We have been trying to heat our house with the fireplace this year. We attempted this idea last year and really saved a lot of money, it's just we kept running out of wood. Cute Bro. Merritt, our home teacher, figured out several ways to help us store wood more efficiently, therefore, we have plenty of wood! Already we've had more fires than last year and our heating bill has showed! You're probably wondering why in the world you'd care about our stupid heating bill, but the picture is the zinger.



Our kitty, Ashley, LOVES the fire! Not a joke, when she hears us crumpling up the newspaper and starting the kindling, she crawls out of one of her various hiding places and snuggles up in Mom's recliner. It's really cute, but can get VERY annoying. Mom will walk in the door from a hard day at work and need to sit by the fire, but there's always a surprise waiting for her. When you try to pick the cat up and off the recliner, she tries her best to squeeze into the corner. (Here's the only problem with that: She's a 25 pound cat and her squeezing into anything smaller than a WinCo grocery bag is out of the question.)

P.S. Keep in mind the grocery bag. . .it's coming up in another post. . .real soon.